From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Feb 17 7:23:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gratis.grondar.za (grouter.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF3337B4EC for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 07:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from grondar.za (root@gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.133]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1HFML953484; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:22:21 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <200102171522.f1HFML953484@gratis.grondar.za> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Matt Dillon , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Summary of List of things to move from main tree to ports References: In-Reply-To: ; from "Matthew N. Dodd" "Sat, 17 Feb 2001 04:35:39 EST." Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:22:58 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Mark Murray wrote: > > I'd really like to see the wall between "base" and "ports" broken down. > > base system > layered software packages > 3rd party software packages Yeah! Sorta! > Humm... I seem to recall another OS that did this sort of thing -20- years > ago. > > I think the real issue is that not everything maintained in the source > tree should be installed by default. We've already got a fairly coarse > system that does this via the various Sysinstall packages. The "base" should be pretty compulsory, the "layered" stuff is "maintained but optional", and '3rd party' is like what we have in ports now, but mostly only the smaller stuff. M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message